We sat down with Jay Ferguson, director at Houlihan Lokey's Healthcare Group, to discuss why he views the pharma services sector as a highly promising investment opportunity. He outlines his prediction that a confluence of tailwinds is set to sustain...
Always the buzz theme at pharma conferences, the subject of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to crop up more and more frequently. Naturally with more and more people using it for work, new regulations on data use and management are starting to appear....
X-Chem, a company focused on drug discovery services, and the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), a public-private partnership accelerating drug discovery through open science, have partnered to create new chemical tools to study human proteins.
LabGenius, a company focused on machine learning (ML) for antibody discovery, has presented key data in a poster presentation at the Single-Domain Antibodies 2023 Meeting.
GEDiCube is joining NVIDIA Inception, a program which guides start-ups by providing access to cutting-edge technology, technical resources, and venture capitalists.
Unquestionably, the buzzword of 2023 is artificial intelligence (AI). From ChatGPT-4 preparing to revolutionize online research to IBM’s project debater engaging humans in live debates, it’s clear that we stand at the dawn of a new era of assistive and...
LabGenius, which uses machine learning (ML) for antibody discovery, has presented data in a poster presentation at the Protein Engineering and Biotherapeutics (PEGS) annual meeting.
Moderna will explore next generation technologies - including quantum computing and artificial intelligence - to advance and accelerate mRNA research via a new partnership with IBM.
German mRNA pioneer BioNTech will acquire InstaDeep, an artificial intelligence and machine learning specialist, for around £362m ($439m): pledging to incorporate rapidly evolving AI capabilities into its research, drug discovery, manufacturing and deployment...
BigHat Biosciences, a US biotech with a machine learning-guided antibody discovery and development platform, has announced a collaboration with Merck to apply its technology to design candidates for up to three drug discovery programs.
Merck (MSD outside the US and Canada) is welcoming applications from early-stage biomedical start-ups for its newly launched Merck Digital Sciences Studio (MDSS): which seeks to support technologies for drug discovery and development.
Pfizer is set to acquire Australia’s ResApp - a company developing a smartphone app to detect COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases based on the user’s cough - for $100m AUD ($74m USD).
Seismic Therapeutic, Inc., a biotechnology company advancing machine learning for immunology drug development, has announced its launch and $101m in Series A financing.
The Oxford-GSK Institute of Molecular and Computational Medicine has been created via a five-year collaboration between GlaxoSmithKline and the University of Oxford.
A research team including MIT, Harvard and Stanford researchers has raised $20m in seed funding for their effort to map out immune cells with machine learning.
GSK signs partnership deal with the University of California to advance genomic research, which sees the creation of a lab and funding for five years of research.
